About Loom
A home for liberatory learning, practice, and community response
The Loom Collective is a training and education organization building liberatory, non-carceral responses to distress, conflict, crisis, and political oppression across clinical, educational, and community settings.
Our origin story
Why we built Loom
Loom grew out of a gap we kept seeing: many trainings are surface-level, built to check CE boxes, and rarely rooted in social justice or praxis. They often fail to meaningfully engage systems of power and oppression, and too few offerings center marginalized communities.
So we set out to create trainings about our people, by our people. Loom is a home for continuing education and community learning that refuses carceral defaults, takes lived experience seriously, and equips people to respond to distress in ways that build collective safety rather than control.
What we’re building
Continuing education and community learning for people who want more honest, useful, and liberation-oriented ways of responding to harm, crisis, and distress.
How we approach this work
Teaching that is politically grounded, practical, and accountable
Liberation-oriented
We start from the realities of racism, cisheterosexism, ableism, and criminalization, and build trainings that move against those logics rather than quietly reproducing them.
Community-rooted
We foreground instructors whose identities and lived experiences align with the communities and topics they teach on, so marginalized people are teaching from their realities rather than being interpreted from a distance.
Practically useful
We focus on skills people can actually use in sessions, classrooms, consultation spaces, and organizing work.
Trauma-aware and consent-driven
We strive to make learning spaces that are accessible, invitational, and honest about limits while respecting complexity, difference, and lived expertise.